Actor Chris Hemsworth has banned his wife Elsa Pataky from posing for adult magazine Playboy.

Pataky, who has daughter India, 2, and three-month-old twins Sasha and Tristan with the "Thor" star, is reportedly desperate to show off her post-baby body in the magazine, but her husband believes it is "inappropriate" for her to flash the flesh, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"She said it would be a great career move, but Chris wanted nothing to do with the conversation. He said it would be inappropriate for a woman with such young children to pose naked," said a source.